Slow Food is looking for more volunteers for our Strawberry Event for children

[Slow Food Russian River]

Slow Food is looking for more volunteers for our Strawberry Event for children

On Saturday, June 16, 8:30am – 1:00pm, Slow Food Russian River is organizing our annual strawberry event for children at Flatbed Farm in Glen Ellen. The event is build around “strawberry diversity,” having kids experience different varieties of strawberries, but there are a number of other activities that introduce them to strawberries, their color, shape, texture, and taste, or to farm life in general.

We are looking for more volunteers who can design and guide these activities, in coordination with the event organizer

Contact Zeno Swijtink at [email protected] if you want to join my team.

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Musicians: Sounds of the Farm
Help kids listen to the sounds of the farm, the chicken, the bees and birds, the farmer, and add sounds of their own making, using simple instruments such as drums, bells, and bottles with water.

Artists: “Strawberry Art”
Direct children in studying and drawing a strawberry and or strawberry plant - Talk about all the parts of the strawberry

Strawberrieliers: “Tasting station”
Direct children in comparing color, size, texture, and taste of four different cultivars of strawberries. Write tasting notes, could be as simple as a smiley for the very young

Chefs: “Sweet & Savory”,
Children and Guardians can taste Strawberries prepared sweet and savory, Guardians pay for tasting

Chefs: “Put your own sweet strawberry treat together” My Own Treat
Children create a strawberry treat for themselves and their guardians, say shortcake

PE: Strawberry Run or Relay
Run a parcourse with a strawberry on a spoon without dropping it. Run as a strawberry.